Love Remedies Australian Living Wild Flower Essences: Healing from the Outback

By Juta Stepanovs and Harald W. Tietze

Love Remedies are a new generation of Australian Wild Flower Essences extracted
by the Stepanovs Method inspired by the traditional Aboriginal healer Eddie Kneebone.

These flower essences are collected with love. No part of the plant is cut or destroyed. This means that they continue their cycle of life to reproduce.

The frequencies of nature's pure love will resonate within, creating peace, love and harmony. The missing link in healing is love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jan 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9783844849295

Juta Stepanovs

Juta Stepanovs kam bereits als Kleinkind 1958 mit Ihren Eltern nach Australien. Heute ist sie eine hoch geschäzte Autorin und Referentin wenn es um die Naturheilkunde und die Aromatherapie geht. Und Sie ist diejenige, die die Zeichen der Zeit verstand und umsetzte. Heilmittel wie Blütenessenzen sollten nicht aus zerstörter, zerkleinerter und aufbereiteter Materie bestehen. Die Natur hat schon immer das bessere Rezept gehabt, um sich und andere zu regenerieren. Bereits in den 80er Jahren gründete Sie zusammen mit dem Naturforscher Harald W. Tietze die Firma Kneipp Cure in Australien, über die sie Naturheilmittel aus Papaya, Guaven und anderen natürlichen Pflanzen herstellenten und bis heute verkaufen. Ihr Buch "Skin Saver Remedies" ist ein Topseller und wird bald auch in Deutsch erscheinen. Sie war ebenfalls maßgeblich an dem Buch "Coconut - The Medicine Food" beteiligt, wie auch an vielen anderen. Durch glückliche Fügungen kam es Mitte der 90er zu einer durchbrechenden, neuen Erfindung. Die Gewinnung von Blütenessenzen, ohne die Pflanze zu beschädigen. Daher heißt diese Herstellung auch "Stepnaovs Methode". Es ist ihre absolute Liebe zur Natur, die Juta Stepanovs antreibt und in Ihren Seminaren und Vorträgen kann man es spüren wie sehr sie mit dieser bedingungslosen Liebe verbunden ist. Ihre Hingabe kann man in allem was sie tut oder sagt erkennen. Ihre Auftritte und "Readings" rühren die Menschen meist so sehr an, dass Tränen fließen. Juta Stepanovs is the pioneer of this new method of extracting flower essences. During her nursing career she saw the need for supportive treatments and became an Aromatherapist, Intuitive Therapist, Herbal Wildcrafter, Horticulturist and a well-known author.

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Communication

The Creation of Stepanovs Essences

by Juta Stepanovs

Flowers and Love Remedies have changed my life. They can certainly change yours too! My partner in Love Remedy creation, Harald Tietze, and I travelled some 25,000 kilometres to collect flower essences for the Love Remedies.

It was the most exciting and rewarding journey of my life. I reconnected with nature on a new level. I could relate to the flowers and allow them to teach me about myself. Appreciating the many gifts of plants and flowers led me to discover a new method of making flower essences that respects the life of the flowers and creates more potent healing. You will appreciate the advantages of the Love Remedies as we explore in detail this wonderful world of flower essences.

Working with, and taking Love Remedies has helped a shy, quiet women of few words, step forward and talk to crowds all over the world about these essences. Because flower remedies bring healing to our emotions and soul, learning more about Love Remedies and using them for your own healing will transform your life by bringing you closer to nature and helping you discover unconditional love for yourself and others. Choosing the best flower essences for you is often an intuitive exercise. For those of us who have shut off that wise part of ourselves, may it open up your intuition as to what is best for you, your body and your life. This has been the result with many clients I have worked with.

Although the Love Remedies have brought my clients and myself many gifts, the discovery of this new method took place through life’s strange coincidences in 1996.

At that time, we were developing and marketing herbal remedies and other natural products, so the three of us visited Guboo, the famous Aboriginal Elder from Wallaga Lake in New South Wales, his daughter Lynne and the renowned Anne Thomas, another Aboriginal Elder.

But the seeds for the Love Remedies were planted thanks Eddie Kneebone from Victoria. Eddie is a walking encyclopaedia of Aboriginal knowledge and he showed us many ways Aborigines used flowers to treat certain diseases. Eddi happened to mention that his people healed with Bottlebrush flowers, by pouring water over them many times while they were still growing on the bush, and drank the water. The fact that they did not have to cut the flowers for healing fascinated me. My first thoughts were, What a beautiful, respectful way to treat plants! And you can even reuse the same flower after a few days, because that plants life cycle is not disturbed. Then I realised that they were not only drinking the water from the plants but also receiving plant energy healing, similar to flower essences.

But some questions about healing that I had had for a long time began surfacing again. Just a few years before, in 1986, I had completed a brief course in Dr Bach’s remedies. I was fascinated by his work, but still had difficulties understanding the mechanism. Other concerns had also surfaced from my experiences as an aromatherapist and as developer of natural remedies. I was concerned that a lot of the medicines were too harsh on the body. I was becoming more interested in the type of healing that worked through our skin or our energy fields. So I experimented with different methods of creating herb and plant extracts. I started to use apple cider vinegar and Kombucha in my remedies because it is gentler to our bodies, internally and externally. I also studied the basics of Aura Soma, which works with colour and our energy fields and learnt about other modalities such as hypnosis.

Although pieces of the puzzle were coming together, I still was not satisfied. I felt that working with our emotions was the key to holistic healing. This was confirmed when I was introduced to the Bach Flower Remedies. Dr Bach’s work opened up a new world for me and I was fascinated. It was not until flower essences where brought to my attention again by Ingfried and Harald, that my quest to understand how flower essences work surfaced again, this time with more purpose and urgency.

My question and concern about flower essences was that when we are working on a spiritual and emotional level and we are transferring this energy from the plant, was it possible that we were also transferring the trauma that the plant goes through when it is cut?

Harald’s question was Do you have a better way?

My immediate answer was that we could extract the essence from the flowers while they were still living on the plant.

How? was Harald’s response.

Intuitively I replied that we could put containers over the flowers and extract their essence and they could fulfil their purpose while continuing to live unharmed.

It meant that the plants would give to us there living essences with LOVE (not trauma) and that the energy we harvested would be LOVE.

Harald looked at me amazed and said it was a brilliant idea and wanted to test the theory out. The next morning we selected a few plants around us and asked their permission to put containers over them to extract their essence. We did so and kept a close check on each plant. Some gave us a few drops of their essences in a matter of a few hours and others over 24 hours. Every plant is different and extracting essences with this new method was a very slow process.

After we had produced the first essences, Harald excitedly told some friends about our discovery. Before I knew it, Ingfried suggested that he and Harald should call the book Living Wild Flower Essences: The Stepanovs Method. He had named this new method after me.

At that time, it still didn’t dawn on me on what all this fuss was about, but before I knew it, we were deep in the Australian bush creating a new range of flower essences.

This is where our journey began in discovering the beauty of Australia’s Love Remedies. The abundance of wild flowers that are out there touched me, I felt as though I had been walking around with my eyes closed. For many years I have sought my purpose, to grow to my full potential. The Love Remedies helped me to rediscover it and to live with unconditional love. It is a wonderful gift